Hitchens on Feith on the CIA
- Tuesday, June 03 2008 @ 03:49 PM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Christopher Hitchens, that is, on Douglas Feith's book War and Decision:
Without explicitly saying so, Feith makes a huge contribution to the growing case for considering the Central Intelligence Agency to be well beyond salvage. Its role as a highly politicized and bewilderingly incompetent body, disastrous enough in having left us under open skies before Sept. 11, 2001, became something more like catastrophic with the gross mishandling of Iraq. For these revelations alone, this book is well worth the acquisition. (I might add that, unlike McClellan, Feith is contributing all his earnings and royalties to charities that care for our men and women in uniform.)